Justin Cruickshank

Realism and Sociology (eBook, PDF)

Anti-Foundationalism, Ontology and Social Research

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology. "Realism and Sociology" makes an original contribution to the debate, charting a middle ground between postmodernism and positivism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134506071
• Artikelnr.: 38253386

Autorenporträt

Justin Cruickshank is a lecturer in Methodology and the Philosophy of Social Science in the Nottingham Graduate School for Social Research, at Nottingham Trent University. He is the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Critical Realism.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Philosophical Logic of Immediacy: the Epistemic Fallacy and the
Genetic Fallacy 2. The Influence of Empiricism on Social Ontology:
Methodological Individualism and Methodological Collectivism 3.
Post-Wittgensteinian Pragmatism: Rorty, Anti-Representationalism and
Politics 4. Post-Wittgensteinian Sociology: Giddens' Ontology of Practices
5. Social Realism: Overcoming the Sociological Logic of Immediacy 6. Social
Realism and the Study of Chronic Unemployment